They called them heroes.
They said, “Thank you for your service.” Then forgot about them. Joe Kirk lost
a leg. Lonnie Blifield lost his eyes. Victoria Roundtree lost her skin. “Zan”
Zander lost his mind. Four homeless and hopeless Iraqistan VETS who
accidentally end up living together on an old school bus. With nowhere to go,
and nothing else to do, they lurch from one VAMC to another, getting no help
because, like the thousands of other Iraqistan VETS who are homeless,
unemployed, and suicidal, they do not trust the system and refuse to “come
inside.” After another fruitless stop, at the VAMC in Iron Mountain, Michigan,
a doctor is found dead, and the VETS are accused of his murder. Distrustful,
strangers to America, to each other, and even to themselves, they must become a
unit to learn who really murdered the doctor, so that they can be free. In
doing so, they uncover far more, about themselves and about their country, than
they dared even to imagine. Available from your local independent book store,
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, BOKO, Books-A-Million, Black Opal Books, and almost
any place else that sells books. $12.99 for paperback, and $3.99 for ebook.
Free if you can get your library to buy one.

Here I come to save the
day! No, not Mighty Mouse. Yuri Strelnikov, the boy genius of Katie McFarland
Kennedy’s delightful Learning to Swear in
America. Buy it or borrow it, but read this book! [What do you mean, you’re
not old enough to remember Mighty Mouse?”